16th NRW Topology Meeting

BOCHUM (GERMANY)

Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, 2011

All talks are in building NA, room 01/99, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Schedule of talks

Friday, November 11
11.00 - 11.50	Matthias Kreck	From cutting and pasting to topological quantum field theories
12.00 - 12.50	Hanno von Bodecker	Circle transfers, twisted eta-invariants and the Adams-Novikov 2-line
	Lunch break
14.30 - 15.20	Justin Noel	From H-infinity to E-infinity
15.30 - 16.20	Hans-Werner Henn	The Brown Comenetz dual of the K(2)-local sphere at the prime 3
	Tea/Coffee break
17.00 - 17.50	Michael Weiss	Smooth maps to the plane and Pontryagin classes

Saturday, November 12
10.00 - 10.50	David Gepner	Brauer groups of commutative ring spectra
11.00 - 11.50	Karlheinz Knapp	Metastable homotopy of SO(n) - revisited
	Tea/Coffee break
12.10 - 13.00	Benoit Fresse	Rational homotopy automorphisms of E₂-operads and Grothendieck-Teichmüller groups

There is no formal registration, but please send an email to Frau Fernholz so that we can estimate the number of participants.
Please also indicate whether you want to join us for dinner on November 11, in the restaurant Livingroom, Luisenstraße 9 (in walking distance from the main station). We will meet there at 7 pm (so you have time to stop at your hotel on the way).

Hotels:

Ibis City und Ibis Zentrum - good and good price but nothing special - Ibis Zentrum is probably a bit more quiet

Oekey - good and good price - between university and station on the U35 line

Art Hotel Tucholsky in the "Bermuda triangle", that is, can be noisy, art hotel with funny accessoires - great breakfast

We have reserved a number of rooms at these hotels for the participants at a reduced rate. (Valid until October 11.) If you wish to book one of those, please contact directly the hotel, key word "Topology".

Here is a list of previous NRW-Topology meetings.

Organizers: Gerd Laures, Martin Olbermann